Nevada Internet Service Providers: Availability & Coverage

INTERNET ACCESS IN Nevada

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Nevada Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

92%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

11%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

39.3

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

20th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

92.8%

of Nevadana have access to wired broadband 25mbps or faster.

91.3%

of Nevadana have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

15.5%

of Nevadana have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.7%

of Nevadana have access to wireline service.

17.3%

of Nevadana have access to fiber-optic service.

92.3%

of Nevadana have access to cable service.

89.9%

of Nevadana have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Nevadana have access to mobile broadband service.

97.9%

of Nevadana have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Nevada

CenturyLink vs Cox

AT&T Internet vs Spectrum

Spectrum vs Frontier

Top 5 Fastest cities in Nevada

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Washoe Valley	127.4 MBPS	15 Providers
2.	Incline Village	64.2 MBPS	12 Providers
3.	Reno	47.0 MBPS	27 Providers
4.	Gardnerville	46.3 MBPS	17 Providers
5.	Sparks	44.7 MBPS	25 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Nevada

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	48.5 MBPS
Cox Communications	44.1 MBPS
CenturyLink	22.2 MBPS
Sky Fiber	19.6 MBPS
Rise Broadband	8.6 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connect Nevada has been awarded $3,993,441 in federal grants for Nevada's Broadband Initiative.
Another $26,713,723, accounting for 0.8% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Nevada.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 92.3% to 95.7% of Nevadana.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 132 internet providers in Nevada.
There are 211,000 people in Nevada without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 216,000 people in Nevada that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 97,000 people in Nevada don't have any wired internet providers available where they live.

Sources: Data collected via the FCC, NTIA, and other sources. For a full list of data sources please visit our data page.

Nevada CITIES


Battle Mountain	0.0%	9 providers
Boulder City	96.4%	12 providers
Carson City	98.1%	22 providers
Dayton	96.8%	11 providers
Elko	0.2%	11 providers
Ely	0.0%	9 providers
Fallon	91.1%	10 providers
Fernley	96.5%	13 providers
Gardnerville	95.1%	17 providers
Hawthorne	89.2%	10 providers
Henderson	97.7%	23 providers
Incline Village	99.4%	12 providers
Las Vegas	96.7%	30 providers
Laughlin	98.8%	11 providers
Lovelock	0.0%	10 providers
Mesquite	94.0%	11 providers
Minden	98.3%	14 providers
North Las Vegas	98.5%	25 providers
Pahrump	52.8%	12 providers
Reno	98.1%	27 providers
Silver Springs	60.8%	10 providers
Sparks	97.8%	25 providers
Spring Creek	0.7%	9 providers
Sun Valley	99.6%	16 providers
Washoe Valley	83.8%	15 providers
West Wendover	95.8%	10 providers
Winnemucca	0.0%	8 providers
Yerington	0.0%	11 providers

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Last Updated on 3/6/2019.

Broadband Internet in Nevada